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JerryBier's avatar

I have no doubt that China is using forced labor and that human rights abuses occur regularly as the Chinese government's mode of operation.

I agree that we should make it illegal to import any products that originate from this Uyghur region and that we should pass laws to make sure that the products we buy in our stores were not produced by slave labor/forced labor.

The one glaring thing to me is that we are pious enough to complain about Chinese forced labor when, in fact, our own U.S. (GOP supported, and yes I am aware that some of this originated in the Clinton administration) private prison system is basically forced labor too.

When many of the "prisoners" in these type of prisons are paid mere cents an hour to produce things for our military and for consumer consumption and while our so-called "war on drugs" supplies many of these prisoners, I just think that along with passing laws that protect human rights abuses worldwide, we should also look inside our own system and make the necessary changes there as well.

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Kim Anderson's avatar

I so wish, it was easy to buy

made in America. I remember clothing unions. The last time I looked I couldn't find 100% made in America textiles of any kind. If we had those options we could hurt these industries in a big way.

I hardly ever purchase clothing. Used, like from Goodwill makes me feel a tad bit better. Shoes although I have to have good tennis shoes. Bad knee and working on my feet my whole life. These are getting harder to find a decent price.Reebok was the last known company I know of that was USA made. This is where we need to begin. And raise wages, we could be an awesome country again.

Hurting these companies bottom line along with legislation in place I believe we could make the changes needed.

Slave labor will always be there in one form or another. It's sad that's true.

I know many people that don't want to know where it comes from as long as it's cheap 🤦.

Although there is enough good people out there education will really help to push for these changes that we need.

Thank you Judd for your hard detailed and concise work and policing Facebook!

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